I know the differences in gear and scaling. I'm talking about intent of Blizzard. I'll repeat the most important line:

We boosted Feral damage to compensate for their losing the attack power from Strength. Net DPS shouldn’t change much overall, though burst may be slightly higher. (We didn’t want to buff bleeds since that was a problem before in PvP.)

So they boosted to compensate for STR changes and NOT to buff. But MEW and other analysis shows a clear buff. If a buff was NOT intended but the numbers end up showing a buff can we expect a nerf from Blizzard?

Or did Blizz really intend a buff to feral kitty dps and this line is incorrect?

Goodmongo wrote:
So they boosted to compensate for STR changes and NOT to buff. But MEW and other analysis shows a clear buff.

patch note states Cat Form's scaling rate from gear upgrades was slower than other classes, which was causing them to fall behind in damage with higher item levelshttp://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2993743

if dps scale was "slower", and fixed, that results in a buff relative to gear.
Intended

Jumped from 16.5 to 18k with T12 chest and boots and all the other available 365 items plus avengers cloak and belt. As I take a closer look at the damage, I notice an increase in FB's contribution as rising crit chance encourages me to use FB outside Berserk if TF is close to refreshing and Rip had just been applied. Shred has actually managed to drop slighty. Bleeds are also down, likely to the bad secondary stats on new gear costing me a full 2 points of mastery. Melee went up but only very slightly. It's a full 20% of my dps now. Mangle is obviously down. Overall Rip took the biggest fall and FB came up the most.